The Black middle class and the mulatto motion picture  

Oleh:

Robinson, Cedric J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Race & Class vol. 47 no. 1 (Jul. 2005), page 14-34.
Topik: Birth of a Nation; blackface; Du Bois; film; Hollywood; Jim Crow; miscegenation
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The growth of the early film industry in the US coincided with the institutionalisation of racial segregation at all levels of society. At the same time, an increasingly self-assertive Black middle class had begun to organise itself culturally, socially, politically and economically in ways that contradicted the virulent cultural racism underpinning ‘Jim Crow’. The importance of the new medium is often stressed for its role in cohering America’s new immigrant communities. However, it is its political function in the service of white supremacy and big business – a cultural instrument to cement racism and foreclose any potential alliance between Black and immigrant labour – that is explored for the first time here.

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